Chapter Summaries

Darius Crowley fought to hold the Cathedral District against the worgen while Patrick and his allies advanced on their leader, Alpha. After learning that Genn had escaped, Patrick confronted Alpha and offered him a chance to leave as the fate of Darius and the defenders remained uncertain.

• Darius led the defense of the church, fought off the worgen, and continued holding the line despite numerous wounds and exhaustion.
• Patrick and Tirion Fordring decided to enter the Cathedral District with elite squads and confront the worgen leader.
• Patrick's group reached the cathedral square and found that the worgen had apparently overrun Holy Light Dawn Church.
• Alpha emerged from the church, claimed he would spread the Wolf Cult, and said Darius was about to join the worgen.
• Patrick learned that King Genn had escaped with his people and offered Alpha the chance to leave while promising to restore the Gilneans' sanity.

Patrick defeated and killed Lylael, the Wolf Leader, then offered the remaining worgen help suppressing their curse. Tirion and Patrick’s forces took charge of the aftermath, while the badly wounded Darius remained unconscious under guard.

• Patrick bound Lylael and blocked his attack with his Mana Shield, then captured the worgen who charged to defend their leader.
• Patrick killed Lylael with Coffin of Space, and Lylael’s most faithful followers burned to ash.
• Iva Bloodfang asked Patrick to remove the worgen curse’s frenzy, and Patrick demonstrated how Percival Glop could suppress it by transforming back into human form.
• Patrick sent Percival to take in the worgen who wanted help, while Tirion Fordring directed soldiers to tend to the aftermath and search for surviving Gilneans.
• Tirion’s reinforcements reached Darius’s defenders, and priests and paladins treated the wounded while Darius lay unconscious under guard.

Patrick prepared a calming potion that suppressed the Worgen Curse’s frenzy, while Darius woke and learned the cathedral had been saved. Meanwhile, Bolvar and Medivh advanced toward the Northeron Highlands, where Medivh seized an island as a staging ground.

• Patrick brewed a potion that restored the reason of those afflicted by the Worgen Curse, and the wounded took it through the night.
• Darius awoke, learned that the Azeroth Arcane Covenant had saved the cathedral, drank Patrick’s potion, and asked to meet the High Elves.
• Varian’s Alliance forces advanced on the Northeron Highlands, with Bolvar leading the naval force in a pincer attack alongside the Dwarves and Gnomes.
• Medivh sensed a chaotic aura near the highlands and suspected Twilight’s Hammer was involved in Med’an’s abduction.
• Medivh appeared on an island ahead of the fleet and vaporized its Twilight Cultists and elemental creatures with arcane fire.
• Bolvar ordered the fleet to land on the island and prepare to advance toward the Northeron Highlands.

Ivar Bloodfang explained the worgen curse’s origins and Alpha’s history to Patrick, while Darius Crowley recovered and came to thank him for rescuing them. The chapter ended with Patrick hearing Darius’s request.

• Ivar Bloodfang told Patrick that Arugal summoned worgen from Darnassus to fight the Scourge, but they turned on Gilneas and spread the curse.
• Ivar explained that Alpha was bound by Arugal’s summoning contract until Arugal died, after which Alpha transformed the survivors and led them into Gilneas.
• Ivar gave Patrick two fragments of The Book of Ur warning that the worgen’s world was dangerous and that summoning them could bring catastrophe.
• Darius Crowley approached Patrick, thanked him for saving them, and prepared to tell him what he needed.

Darius offered to join the Arcane Pact and cut the Gilneas Brigade’s ties with Theramore, hoping to end Gilneas’s isolation. Patrick refused to let Darius commit the kingdom without King Genn and urged him to wait until Genn returned.

• Darius told Patrick that Gilneas could join the Arcane Pact and offered to sever the Gilneas Brigade’s ties with Theramore.
• Patrick said Darius could not speak for the Kingdom of Gilneas and that the Arcane Pact would not interfere in its internal affairs.
• Patrick recalled Gilneas’s past refusal to help Lordaeron and considered Varian’s distrust of Genn justified.
• Patrick told Darius not to rush into another coup and said he could discuss Gilneas’s future with Genn when the king returned.

Prince Liam arrived at the ruined cathedral and learned how the Azeroth Arcane Covenant had helped Gilneas survive the worgen crisis. Patrick announced that the Covenant would withdraw from Gilneas, leaving Liam and Darius to confront the question of whether the kingdom would join the Arcane Pact.

• Prince Liam arrived at the ruined cathedral and was astonished to see worgen working peacefully after Quel'Thalas's potion restored their sanity.
• Darius told Liam that the Covenant had rescued Gilneas from the Wolf Cult and urged him to persuade Genn to stop isolating the kingdom.
• Darius introduced Prince Liam to Patrick and Tirion Fordring inside the cathedral.
• Patrick announced that the Covenant would withdraw from Gilneas after resolving the worgen crisis.
• Tirion Fordring said the Covenant had planned to invite Gilneas into the Arcane Pact, but Lord Cabrolon had changed his mind.

After dying, Lin Yu inherited his ancestor’s medical and mystical arts and possessed the body of a young man in a coma. He returned to find his mother being threatened over her debts, then met the woman who identified herself as his wife, He Jiarong.

• Lin Yu died in the hospital and watched as his mother grieved and his body was cremated.
• A jade pendant left by Lin Yu’s maternal grandfather awakened an ancestor’s inheritance, including the Resurrection Technique.
• With his soul fading, Lin Yu possessed a young male patient in a vegetative state at a care center.
• Lin Yu reached his mother’s bun shop and drove off the loan sharks threatening to take her house, promising to repay her debt.
• He Jiarong arrived at the shop and told Lin Yu that she was his wife, saying he had been in a coma for two months.

Patrick explained that he had given up on bringing Gilneas into the Arcane Pact because he saw no basis for trust and did not want to interfere in the kingdom’s internal conflicts. He planned to leave with the high elves once the situation settled, while Tirion urged him to wait for King Genn before departing.

• Darius firmly asked to join the Arcane Pact, and Patrick explained that the organization required unity and mutual trust, which he believed Gilneas lacked.
• Patrick told Tirion Fordring that he trusted Lordaeron and Archbishop Alonsus Faol, but had decided Gilneas had nothing he wanted and would not meddle in its affairs.
• Many worgen began fleeing Gilneas under the protection of the animal gods, while Sseratus praised the region and Patrick warned that Genn would oppose the snakes gathering followers there.
• Patrick instructed his deputy to follow the original plan and take the high elves back to Dalaran and then Silvermoon City, despite Prince Liam asking him to stay.
• Tirion asked whether Patrick was giving up on bringing Gilneas into the Covenant, and Patrick said he would leave unless he could meet Genn before then.

King Genn met with Patrick after Quel'Thalas and Lordaeron helped suppress Gilneas's worgen crisis, but he questioned their motives and Patrick answered with a sharp warning. The meeting ended in open hostility, leaving Gilneas's place in the Arcane Pact uncertain.

• Tirion Fordring and Patrick discussed whether unstable Gilneas could safely join the Arcane Pact and keep its purpose secret.
• King Genn arrived in Gilneas City, and Patrick delayed meeting him for two days while inspecting the countryside with Quetz'lun, Sseratus, and Har'koa.
• Vincent Godfrey introduced himself to Patrick as a member of Gilneas's House of Lords.
• King Genn challenged Patrick to explain why Quel'Thalas and Lordaeron had crossed the Greymane Wall.
• Patrick said he had suppressed the Worgen Curse and killed The Wolf Leader, then accused Genn of treating his rescuers with suspicion.

Patrick left Gilneas’s political negotiations to Tirion Fordring, while Thrall and Agna traveled to Nagrand to learn at the Throne of the Elements. The earth elemental’s warning that Azeroth would be destroyed remained unexplained as the two reached Lake Sunsong.

• Patrick rejected further involvement in Gilneas and left Genn Greymane to negotiate with Tirion Fordring.
• Thrall and Agna heard Greatmother Geyah’s conclusion that an evil presence would destroy the world, after the earth elemental’s message was cut off.
• Greatmother Geyah sent Thrall and Agna to the Throne of the Elements in Outland to study shamanism.
• Agna led Thrall across Nagrand to Lake Sunsong, where he sensed elemental power beneath the water.
• Agna explained that Nagrand had survived Draenor’s devastation better than other regions, though the shamans had been unable to heal the rest of the land.

Thrall and Agna crossed Lake Sunsong to visit the Throne of the Elements, where Thrall saw the Draenor elementals lived peacefully together. Meanwhile, Muln joined Medivh in the Twilight Highlands and began preparing the Earthen Ring to contain Mad Maw Esuolasi while Medivh pursued the Twilight Cultists and searched for Med'an.

• Agna told Thrall that the elements of Draenor and Azeroth were the same and led him toward the Throne of the Elements.
• Agna and Thrall walked across Lake Sunsong with the water elemental Eblius's blessing.
• Medivh described the Alliance's advance through the Twilight Highlands and identified Mad Maw Esuolasi as a grave threat rooted beneath the land.
• Muln surveyed the area with the Earthen Ring and decided to build an elemental magic circle to heal the land and contain Esuolasi.
• Muln told Medivh that the Earthen Ring lacked the forces to help attack the Bastion of Twilight, while Medivh continued searching for Med'an.
• Thrall and Agna reached the Throne of the Elements, and Agna explained that the powerful Elemental Furies had no need to fear one another.

Thrall sought help from the Elemental Furies of Outland to understand the suffering of Azeroth, but Karadios and Ithranatus could offer no answers about his vision. He continued toward the remaining Furies.

• Agna led Thrall to the Elemental Furies and introduced Gordawg, Eblius, Ithranatus, and Karadios.
• Thrall approached Karadios and asked whether his vision of failing to save Azeroth was real and unavoidable.
• Karadios said Draenor’s shattered earth had corrupted the elements and urged Thrall to analyze his vision, explaining that he could do nothing more.
• Thrall approached Ithranatus, endured the heat, and asked for help with Azeroth’s suffering.
• Ithranatus said the fire in Outland was itself suffering and told Thrall he could only grant him passion to keep trying.

Thrall received Ithranatus's fiery blessing and shared a tender moment with Agna. In Silverpine Forest, Patrick proposed that Lordaeron rebuild Stratholme with Quel'Thalas's financial and technical help, though Tirion Fordring worried about the kingdom's ability to repay the loan.

• Ithranatus blessed Thrall with the passion of fire, and Agna comforted him as he recovered.
• Thrall told Agna that he believed the gift would help him aid Azeroth's elementals, and the two held hands.
• Patrick and Tirion Fordring discussed Gilneas's decision to observe the Arcane Pact rather than fully join it.
• Patrick proposed using departing Gilnean civilians to help repopulate the Eastern Plaguelands and rebuild Stratholme.
• Patrick offered Quel'Thalas's funding and scholars to support Stratholme's reconstruction, while Tirion worried Lordaeron could not repay the loan.

Patrick offered Tirion Fordring a nearly interest-free Quel'Thalas loan to rebuild Stratholme, with Lordaeron retaining sovereignty and port operations while sharing commercial tax revenue. Tirion accepted, and the deal promised to help Lordaeron recover while giving Quel'Thalas diplomatic influence and paid work for its people.

• Patrick proposed that Quel'Thalas finance Stratholme's reconstruction in return for forty percent of commercial tax revenue and favorable trade terms, while Lordaeron kept sovereignty and port operating rights.
• Tirion Fordring asked about the loan's interest rate, and Patrick said it would be the lowest in the Arcane Pact and practically interest-free.
• Tirion accepted the terms and said he would report to Calia and Alonsus before sending a trade delegation to Quelrins City.
• Patrick and Tirion agreed that Vashj's Naga could establish nests near the port, and that Lordaeron would protect the Scholars and cleanse Stratholme's plague-contaminated land.
• Tirion viewed the agreement as a sign of reconciliation and planned to settle his worgen followers in the rebuilt city.
• Patrick saw the project as a way to expand Quel'Thalas's influence, employ High Elves, and earn money through construction materials, expertise, labor, and loan repayment.

Thrall sought answers from the remaining Elemental Furies at the Throne of the Elements about Azeroth’s suffering elementals. Eblius urged him to face his pain and pursue healing, while Gordawg began questioning him about the source of the elementals’ agony.

• Agna told Thrall that Gordawg and Eblius might clarify the visions he had received.
• Thrall prayed to Eblius, who said water could bring balance and restoration and urged him not to let fear hinder his efforts to heal Azeroth.
• Eblius wept with Thrall, who realized that restoring Azeroth and its elementals mattered more to him than freeing his people or securing them a home.
• Thrall approached Gordawg and explained that Azeroth’s elementals were suffering and causing disasters, but he did not know why.
• Gordawg asked Thrall why Azeroth’s elementals were in pain.

Thrall asked Gordawg to learn about Azeroth’s danger by tasting a stone from his world, and Gordawg sensed that the elements feared a once-wise being who had turned dark and sought to destroy the earth. Thrall and Agna resolved to return to Azeroth and discover how to stop the coming catastrophe.

• Thrall explained that Azeroth’s sickness could spread through the portal and threaten Outland, so Gordawg tasted soil to learn about an unfamiliar world.
• Thrall gave Gordawg a small stone from Azeroth, and Gordawg sensed that it was terrified and that the world’s elements feared an approaching threat.
• Gordawg warned Thrall that a once-powerful, wise being had fallen into madness and would bring destruction to Azeroth through anger, chaos, and flame.
• Gordawg compared the stone’s fear to the fear he had sensed before Draenor was torn apart, and Thrall recalled that Drek'Thar’s troubling dreams had been accurate.
• Thrall told Agna he would return to Azeroth to investigate the elements’ fear, and Agna pledged the shamans’ support to protect their world.

Horde leaders gathered in Orgrimmar to decide how to address Magatha and the Grimtotem’s growing influence in Thunder Bluff. Garrosh and Dorothy pressed for a clear response to secure the Horde’s internal stability, while Cairne resisted violence against fellow tauren.

• Cairne summoned Horde leaders to discuss the Grimtotem, who lived in Thunder Bluff but had never formally joined the Horde.
• Hamuul described Magatha’s growing boldness, while Krona offered to help destroy the Grimtotem and Cairne refused to kill his own people.
• Garrosh warned that Magatha might be trying to seize Thunder Bluff and argued that the Grimtotem could not claim Horde rights without joining the Horde.
• Garrosh emphasized that Mulgore and Thunder Bluff were vital to the Horde’s food supply and that the Horde needed to control its own resources.
• Dorothy urged Hamuul to make the Grimtotem declare their position and abandon their schemes, arguing that the Horde needed stability and unity.

Garrosh and the Horde leaders confronted warnings of an approaching cataclysm as earthquakes and a devastating tsunami struck the coasts. Thrall sensed that a feared evil at the heart of the Maelstrom was tearing Azeroth apart, while Medivh rushed back to Stormwind and left Med'an in Bolvar and Meryl Winterstorm’s care.

• After reading Dorothy’s report and hearing Drek'Thar’s warning, Garrosh urged the leaders to confront the growing crisis and Hamuul said it was time to deal with Magatha.
• Violent tremors shook the Horde gathering as the seabed split and residents fled their homes.
• The sea receded at Storm Harbor, then a tsunami smashed ships, swept away people and supplies, and submerged the harbor; a sinkhole also opened along Westfall’s coast.
• Thrall arrived in Durotar and felt the earth split and surge beneath him before the earth elements’ cries revealed a hidden evil at the heart of the Maelstrom.
• Medivh sensed Azeroth being torn apart and ordered Bolvar and Meryl Winterstorm to return to Stormwind City with the weakened Med'an, then teleported away himself.

After returning to Quel'Thalas, Patrick received reports of the Cataclysm's devastation and learned that Neltharion was behind the disasters. He ordered the Covenant to prepare for war and sent word to the Alliance, Horde, and Malygos as Azeroth's forces began to gather against Deathwing.

• Patrick returned to Quel'Thalas, where survivors from Gilneas settled in New Faolun City and Quelrins City as the Eastern Plaguelands recovered.
• Patrick reviewed reports of tsunamis, storms, earthquakes, and fires across Azeroth, while Pasareen explained that Quel'Thalas and its neighboring settlements had largely escaped harm.
• Patrick identified Neltharion as the cause of the Cataclysm and ordered every member nation of the Covenant to prepare its troops and resources for war.
• Patrick instructed Pasareen to share the news with the Alliance and Horde so they could prepare to fight Deathwing.
• Patrick sent a Magical Letter to Malygos through Saragoss, alerting the Aspect of the Blue to Neltharion's actions.

Patrick and the blue dragons prepared to fight Deathwing as the Cataclysm’s disasters spread across Azeroth. The chapter ended with Quel'Thalas continuing research into Titan technology while its leaders awaited war.

• Malygos recalled the blue dragons to the Nexus after receiving Patrick’s letter, and Saragoss met Patrick at the Silvermoon Council to discuss Deathwing.
• Patrick explained that Deathwing had connected the Elemental Plane to Azeroth and promised to honor his agreement to fight the black dragons.
• Patrick ordered Saragoss to prepare the blue dragons for war and to ready arcane-construct specialists to enter the second floating city.
• Kael'thas told Patrick that research at Ulduar had produced limited results, though the Sun Seekers had upgraded the arcane golems using ideas inspired by Mimiron’s machines.
• Patrick asked whether Quel'Thalas could manufacture iron dwarves, and Kael'thas said the researchers could not yet achieve the required precision.